Stephanomics on austerity.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

I had a radio and used to listen to Anna Raeburn on Capital late at night.

I used to listen to anna raeburn on LBC....or was it something different...a london talk radio station.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

I used to listen to anna raeburn on LBC....or was it something different...a london talk radio station.

Same Anna...I used to love her show on LBC..was it about 12 years ago?

I don't know if she still broadcasts...I think she resigned from LBC over the woman who was pregnant with 8 or 9 babies at once and was represented by Max Cliffod at the time. Then she went to Lynne Franks new radio station for women I think....or was it Anita Roddicks station? .....don't think it lasted. I know I didn't ever tune into it.

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Same Anna...I used to love her show on LBC..was it about 12 years ago?

I don't know if she still broadcasts...I think she resigned from LBC over the woman who was pregnant with 8 or 9 babies at once and was represented by Max Cliffod at the time. Then she went to Lynne Franks new radio station for women I think....or was it Anita Roddicks station? .....don't think it lasted. I know I didn't ever tune into it.

She was at lunchtime on LBC about...well less than 12 years ago.....maybe 6? But when I was a teen, I listen to her at night, and James Whale.:o I love talk radio. I really miss LBC out here.

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

She was at lunchtime on LBC about...well less than 12 years ago.....maybe 6? But when I was a teen, I listen to her at night, and James Whale.:o I love talk radio. I really miss LBC out here.

Me too.....will go back to having it on at the studio sometimes...so I will be much more informed. Scary how much news I just read on here....no tv reception down here and I never get around to having the news on live iplayer.
I am soon to leave my bubble world.:o

torontoboy45

treliac wrote: »

Me too. Sounds like my childhood... in the days before we became a society of debt junkies.

Everything moved too far, too fast. It's all very well expecting people to take personal responsibility but human nature leaves too many only able to focus on the here and now with an insatiable greed to feed.

Times were much happier when we didn't reach out to grasp the very latest of anything and everything in a lemming like aquisitive drive, fed by credit card and debt and advertising which implied we were worthless if we didn't have it all.

IMO post of the day.

at the geriatric age of 47 I remember well a time when life was simpler and less avaricious; when debt was considered 'sin' by the 'old gits'. (not to say that the 'gits' wouldn't have endebted themselves, given half the chance and the right social tolerances).
every generation has lemming-type tendancies. every generation holds members that sign up to personal greed, but if I were to say that thatcher gave this low aspiration credence/respectability/a voice I'd probably be shot down in flames.....

ILW

This has got me thinking about all the advantages of all this new found wealth over tha last 30 years. Oddly I can think of very few that actually make any difference to a happy lifestyle.
The main one I can think of is a reliable car. Most of the other stuff (ipods, 24 hr shopping, massive tellies, Dysons, etc seem a little petty)

Wookster

ILW wrote: »

This has got me thinking about all the advantages of all this new found wealth over tha last 30 years. Oddly I can think of very few that actually make any difference to a happy lifestyle.
The main one I can think of is a reliable car. Most of the other stuff (ipods, 24 hr shopping, massive tellies, Dysons, etc seem a little petty)

I think so much of our troubles come from the fact that house prices are so ridiculously high that people think of huge amounts of debt as being totally normal and don't have any qualms buying now and paying later.

My parents are quite old fashioned people and they almost live by Warren Buffets mantra of not relying on the "kindness of strangers".

Lotus-eater

amcluesent wrote: »

Shopping at Lidls, make do & mend, patched trousers, taking fish-paste sarnies to work, hand-me-downs for the kids, charity shops not John Lewis, spam fritters again, wearing wollens and no central heating, shared baths, 'national bread', 50mph speed limit on motorways, coffee made from acorns, grow-your-own turnips, no ready meals, caravans holidays in Gwent, scrimping for the sake of the kiddies, cycling everywhere, cancelling Sky Sports, ...

Welcome to austerity!

Must be me then, apart from spam fritters, I can't see anything wrong with any of that, in fact I do most of it already.
And alot more stuff.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

She was at lunchtime on LBC about...well less than 12 years ago.....maybe 6? But when I was a teen, I listen to her at night, and James Whale.:o I love talk radio. I really miss LBC out here.

She was on talk radio a long time ago, when it was talk radio and I used to listen all the time, then they made it into talksport and I've never listened since. !!!!!!s.

It also had Jonathan King on, in his pre disgraced days.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

She was on talk radio a long time ago, when it was talk radio and I used to listen all the time, then they made it into talksport and I've never listened since. !!!!!!s.

It also had Jonathan King on, in his pre disgraced days.

Ah yes, I just get a flicker of remembering of that when I read it. Not jonathon King...don't remember him.